Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . nds than in any civilized country which I haveever visited or read about. Women are treated with more respect, andmarriage is held in greater honor. 3 On the cheerless coast of Greenland the work of the Danish andMoravian missionaries has created a state of civilization as Christianas we find in Where ferocious cannibals once made thewhole coast-line a terror to mariners, there is now safety and hospitalityto shipwrecked seamen. Dr. Kane states that for the last hundredyears Greenland has been safer fo
Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . nds than in any civilized country which I haveever visited or read about. Women are treated with more respect, andmarriage is held in greater honor. 3 On the cheerless coast of Greenland the work of the Danish andMoravian missionaries has created a state of civilization as Christianas we find in Where ferocious cannibals once made thewhole coast-line a terror to mariners, there is now safety and hospitalityto shipwrecked seamen. Dr. Kane states that for the last hundredyears Greenland has been safer for the wrecked mariner than manyparts of our American coast; hospitality is the universal i The Rev. William Gunn, (F. C. S.), Futuna, New Hebrides. 2 The Rev. J. E. Newell, Malua Institution, Samoa. 3 The Rev. E. M. Pease, (A. B. C. F. M.), Marshall Islands.* La Trobe, The Moravian Missions, p. 18. 5 Thompson, Moravian Missions, p. 260. The record of their missions inSouth Africa and Australia presents similar triumphs. {Ibid., pp. 403, 404, 445-451.). THE DAWN OF A SOCIOLOGICAL ERA IN MISSIONS 85 X The testimony of missionaries to the social benefits of missions canbe supplemented by that of thoughtful and observant natives of variouslands, and by the opinion of resident merchants The evidence of nativeand officials, who have in many instances expressed witnesses in many . notable instances con- their convictions as to the beneficent results of firms the Views 0fmission work among native races. It is freely missionaries, admitted by intelligent Japanese writers, states Professor John (P. B. F. M. N.), of Tokyo, that Christianity is the best re-generator of society. It is scarcely necessary, writes the S. Spencer (M. E. M. S.), of Nagoya, for a missionary to saythat our only hope for the removal of these evils of Japanese societylies in the religion of our Master. This the Japanese—that is, theChristian Japanese—believe, though
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